Word: optometrist
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...Arriving at Beowulf is still like visiting the optometrist: the movie screen is an eye chart, with pictures instead of letters. But the glasses are kinda cool, like wrap-around Ray-Bans - larger, because the IMAX screen fills most of your field of vision, and less distracting than the old kind. Just don't tilt your head; suddenly everything gets blurry...
...only child of Robert and Beverly Galanter, he says he grew up in idyllic circumstances in the Philadelphia suburb of Cherry Hill, N.J. He speaks proudly of the work his father and paternal grandparents did in the area. "My dad's mother was the first female optometrist in the U.S.," he says. "My dad worked for his mom as an optometrist. He's still working...
...Salvatore Culosi Jr., a 37-year-old optometrist: Killed by a SWAT team member while standing unarmed outside his house. He was under investigation for gambling with friends...
Meanwhile, college costs are going up 6% a year; health-care costs 8%. Both far outstrip the expected 3% annual inflation rate over the next few years, and are taking a toll on boomers with college-age kids and dependent parents. What can they do? William Stern, 48, an optometrist in Shawano, Wis., has invested aggressively in stocks for 23 years. He recently shifted 20% of his assets to bonds. "I'm trying to reduce the risk in my portfolio," he says. He has also beefed up his savings rate, tucking away more than his goal of 20% of income...
...nonsensical or sufficiently obscure that it’s tricky to tell the difference between the two: “Driving the whalebones home / 18 hours ago / Lots of water in tow.” But it is difficult not to fall for lines like, “Optometrist to the stars / Had it lucky with tarot cards.” The music is in the best imitation-is-the-highest-compliment derivative style: “History of the River” borrows its guitars from Neil Young’s “Sleeps with Angels...